Alive; the story of the Andes survivors by Read Piers Paul 1941-

Author:Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, Aircraft accidents, Cannibalism
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Published: 1974-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

bringing him down onto the floor for the night, but the pain this caused was too great and Echavarren preferred to go back to the hammock. Then one night he became delirious. "Who wants to come with me to the store," he said, "to get some bread and Coca-Cola?" Then he shouted, "Papa, Papa, come in! We're in here. . . ."

Paez went up to him and said, "You can say what you like later, but now you're going to pray with me. 'Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee ...' "

Echavarren's open, staring eyes turned toward Paez, and slowly his lips began to repeat the words of the prayer. For that short moment—the time it took them to say a Hail Mary and an Our Father—he was lucid. Then Paez went to sleep opposite Inciarte, and Echavarren returned to his incoherent raving.

"Who'll come with me to the store?"

"Not me, thanks," they shouted back, or "Let's wait until tomorrow." They were quite hardened to the horror of it all. Soon, however, his delirium ceased; all they could hear was the rasping sound of his labored breathing. Later it quickened and then stopped. Zerbino and Paez leaped up and pushed against his chest to try and start it again. Paez continued this artificial respiration for half an hour, but it was clear to the rest of them after a few minutes that Rafael Echavarren was dead.

Echavarren's death inevitably depressed them; it reminded each one that he too might die. Fito lay with blood seeping from his hemorrhoids, feeling more anxious, frightened, and lonely than ever before, yet just because he sensed his own death to be near, he felt close to God and prayed to Him for his own soul and for the well-being of all the others.

What made his spirits rise again the next morning—as it did for all the fourteen who were left alive in the fuselage

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